Show me your computer desktop!

[mainegreen]

I'm kinda curious to see what everyones desktop looks like. I think it tells an awful lot about a person. I'll go first (reduced from 1280x1024):



As you can tell, I like a clean desktop!

[huskerlaw]

1. Here ya go...

Sunset Beach, North Shore, Oahu. From my trip there last Christmas...

[mainegreen]

7. Nice!

Plus I love the way OSX desktops just look!

[Fox Mulder]

2. Here's mine (not to scale):

[mainegreen]

5. Oooh. I like yours!

I always liked backgrounds that are darker.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Here it is.

[mainegreen]

4. Wha?

:rofl: I love it!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. .......

[mainegreen]

8. Busy desktop

yet organized! I like the sideways pyramid thing ya got going on with those icons. That would drive me nuts!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. I just have it organized by groups.

[greyl]

96. Similar to mine:

It's perfectly logical, right? :)

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. Mine..

[Crazy Guggenheim]

11. WTF??

[Omphaloskepsis]

14. It works for me.

I'm a bit of a slob.

[mainegreen]

13. Arg! My eyes!

They burn! They burn!

Wow. I don't know what to say. That's amazing!

Is it a web-developers exploded mid project desktop?

[Omphaloskepsis]

15. I think that would be an accurate description..

[ghostsofgiants]

37. Your desktop makes baby Jesus cry

[mainegreen]

66. *snort*

coffee shot out my nose! Funny!
:rofl:

[Field Of Dreams]

80. Shit that's funny ... I almost choked on my apple!

eom

[Omphaloskepsis]

97. No...

The files inside my movies folder make baby Jesus cry. And kill a few kittens too.

[ghostsofgiants]

121. And in the end, isn't that what really matters?

[Elidor]

72. This is how my desktop usually looks, though not so many icons

Oddly enough, I usually know exactly where everything is. I've spent years developing my mental filing index.

[SoCalDem]

106. I change mine a lot.. This is what I'm using now

[mainegreen]

113. Nice.

I like the fact it has a zeppelin. Also, its interesting the bowl shape you've made with your icons! :)

Everyone seems to have a different method to their desktop icon madness.

[Elidor]

123. Umm...why are there two suns in the sunset?

Gee, that's a Roger Waters song, too.

And as the windshield melts
My tears evaporate
Leaving only charcoal to defend.
Finally I understand the feelings of the few.
Ashes and diamonds
Foe and friend
We were all equal in the end.

[samplegirl]

91. ha ha ha ha ha

and you know where everything is!

[entanglement]

108. Wow! How do you manage to find what you're looking for?

:wow:

[Omphaloskepsis]

111. It works..

I just know where I put things.

[Tripper11]

12. Mine....I like to hide my icons...clean look

[mainegreen]

24. Wow.

You even got rid of your trash can! Thats extreme. I couldn't do that. I love dropping things in that can. I don't know why. I just do.

Great desktop though!

[ikojo]

78. I see a Steal Your Face in your tray down there

What is that for?

[Fox Mulder]

Hey...I just noticed this about your background...

are you a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan?

[mainegreen]

21. Yup.

I had never seen them before (this is after the show actually ended), and someone lent me the first season on DVD. I then proceeded to watch every episode in order over the next 2 months.

It was pure heaven.

[Fox Mulder]

49. I like everything about that show except...

Buffy.

SMG is really blah as Buffy.

[Ptah]

16. I try to keep mine topical.

:thumbsup:

[mainegreen]

23. I love it!

When its time for a change I often go for satelite imagery.

[Ptah]

35. Sometimes, I go with a classic.

:shrug:

[2bfree]

105. That was mine up until today!

I now have the pic of republican with the "ashamed" banner. I'd post it but am too stupid to know how!

[Ladyhawk]

17. Mine's cluttered, like my mind.

I change the background fairly often. It was a great white shark last week.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. It's organized though.

[Omphaloskepsis]

20. For some strange reason I don't think of that as cluttered..

[mainegreen]

22. Your icons actually form a very nice frame

That all-seeing eye icon looks....

intriguing

[entanglement]

109. You have Spybot, AdAware AND Spyware blaster!!

Talk about security conscious ;)

It seems you're a serious gamer as well (HL2 rocks!)

:toast:

[RoyGBiv]

19. For the moment ...

I change my background image fairly regularly, but the sparse layout remains the same.

[Maestro]

25. Friggin hilarious! -nt

[mainegreen]

26. Thats nice!

What desktop environment? Looks like a modded KDE, but your "My Computer" is throwing me off.

[RoyGBiv]

Yeah, KDE ...

KDE 3.2 under SuSE 9.2.

That "My Computer" thing is just a link to drives:/ SuSE installed it.

Whenever I look at it, I think I need to change the name of it, then go and do something else. :-)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

27. I just noticed something. I don't see anti-virus and a firewall running

on some people's system .......

[mainegreen]

28. Firewalls in the router.

And I don't need no stinkin' anti-virus. I don't us MS products, other than the OS.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

29. Not enough. You need a software firewall and anti-virus.

On Edit:

A router still let's viruses and spyware through.

[mainegreen]

31. I guess my logic is

I never install anything off the internet, I only use firefox and thunderbird when connecting to the internet, and the only websites I go to (at home) are DU, HomestarRunner, Weebl Stuff, MLB, and Abandonia. Low risk of infection. I haven't had a virus since I got a bootloader virus back in '97 attached to a beer-shooting game on floppy.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

33. I'd still get it checked if I were you. Do you run the spyware/adware

scans?

[mainegreen]

38. Not really.

I probably should, but I re-install my OS every year or so anyways.

[RoyGBiv]

34. My firewall ...

Mine is integrated into the OS, and there's no desktop or system tray icon for it.

And, no, there is no anti-virus running. :-)

Under my Windoze installation, I have AVG running, but I usually keep the system tray icon hidden because I get tired of looking at it.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

36. Are you also running Linux?

[Maestro]

30. Mine

Sure is hot today. Check out that temperature.

[mainegreen]

32. Yikes.

I actually got the idea to ask for peoples desktops in a thread you posted to about Printscreen. I really liked your desktop. Except the family photo was different and the cd cover was a different cd cover, with 2 people with barcodes for mustaches. I presume thats a software thing that shows the CD cover for the album your playing? If so, whats the software?

[Maestro]

43. You can access all the nice widgets

like a MAC from www.konfabulator.com. The widget that displays my music CD covers is called iTunes Companion. And of course you must have iTunes for it to work. The pics are rotated by a widget called Picture Frame. Konfabulator used to cost money but now it is free since Yahoo bought the rights to it. Oh and the album cover you saw was Yello's latest, The Eye. It is a great album by a great group.

[JohnnyRingo]

99. I see IL2 with all the add-ons

Beats the hell out of M$ combat sim.

[ghostsofgiants]

39. That's a pretty cool wallpaper...

Here's mine...

[mainegreen]

42. I really like yours

even if it does make me slightly dizzy. The folder labeling "( )" is interesting! :P

[ghostsofgiants]

46. Haha...

() is where I keep all of my art/web design related stuff. I didn't want to label it "Art/design stuff" or anything, because I'm a nerd like that, and I was listening to the Sigur Ros album called "()" at the time.

[Solon]

40. Here's Mine...

Kubuntu 5.04

[mainegreen]

44. Nice color scheme.

Another KDE desktop!

[Solon]

47. The Color scheme is the default...

The Windows decor is Crystal-GL, which makes the top bar of the window look like your looking through blue glass when seeing the background, can't see it in the pic.

ON EDIT: Here is a slightly different pic, with Firefox shaded, and a different wallpaper so you can see what I mean.

[mainegreen]

69. I'll have to try that at my server at work. nt

[BulletproofLandshark]

41. My 'Skins Desktop

[mainegreen]

45. Everyone has such clean desktops!

I love it!

[ironflange]

48. mine

This is my desktop. My laptop has a snow leopard lounging across the screen.

[mainegreen]

50. Nice

Another great desktop!

[entanglement]

110. Starry Nights! Very tasteful n/t

[Elidor]

51. I cleaned up my desktop just for this

Not my favorite desktop - it's hard to find anything, but it's my favorite cave.

[mainegreen]

54. Wow. Nice cave!

Sound like you've been to that cave? Is that you by the rock? Quit frankly that cave looks like it goes in a ways.

Thanks for the desktop!
:hi:

[Elidor]

58. That's not me, but I go to this one regularly

The known extent of the passage is only 1-1/2 miles, but dye tracing shows that there are several more miles of passage waiting to be discovered (the water disappears in a tight crack and re-emerges in a spring several miles away). And I hope to be the one to discover them.

:hi:

[mainegreen]

65. Your braver than me.

Caves make me nuts! Something about all that rock over my head.

[Maine Mary]

52. I would if I could

But I don't know how, my friend.

Yours is great though... Especially if you're from Paris, Maine ;-)

[mainegreen]

53. What the?

How'd you know that? I must say, your post has thrown me for a loop! Are you from Paris or perhaps Norway?

[OKNancy]

55. Okay - I'll try

Half size

[mainegreen]

59. Its starting to look a bit like that up here.

Great shot! I've noticed a lot of people have that weather thing. I presume thats an XP thing? Either way your desktop and layout is very soothing.

Nice!

[Maestro]

68. Another Konfabulator fan I see.

NIce looking desktop pic too.

[astonamous]

56. Here's mine...Richard Pryor says, "Fuck Bush"!

[mainegreen]

61. Richard Pryor = Genious

That man had a keen wit.

Also, you have the same icon-frame ladyhawk has.

[astonamous]

64. You got that. Pure genius!

http://www.richardpryor.com/forums/msgs.cfm?msg=16929&forum=6

[Renew Deal]

57. Man or Astroman is a great band.

I have seen them 3-4 times. They are awesome.

[mainegreen]

63. Love them! nt

[BigMcLargehuge]

60. I'm a neatnick too

[mainegreen]

62. Wow!

:wow: ! I love the way the vertical 'tapestry' provided two perfect sidebars for icons. Makes your icons look like they belong there.

Great!

[qnr]

67. Reduced 50%

[mainegreen]

71. I think your servers down!

Cant see the link :shrug:

[qnr]

74. hmm, interesting. Are you seeing my sig graphic?

[mainegreen]

75. Nope. Not even when I click throught to the url

The url linux.aliboom.com is definitly unreachable for me.

[qnr]

76. Hmmm what about using http://69.173.131.225/dt.png

Maybe the change hasn't propagated to your DNS

[mainegreen]

79. Nope. No go.

I even did a traceroute. Lost you at adelphiacom.net (66.109.1.22).

[qnr]

81. strange. People are able to access it when I gave the URL on IRC

Well, I'll look into it in a while, I need to walk the dog

[qnr]

112. Well, new ISP, I'll see, maybe with port forwarding:

http://linux.aliboom.com:8000/dt.png

(all these posts, and the desktop is boring ... sheesh)

[mainegreen]

114. That did the trick!

Whats your environment? I like the look of that one.

[qnr]

119. Linux, using Waimea as a window manager. n/t

[Maine Mary]

70. My mother's hug

She did everything she could (in her understanding) to protect me...

[mainegreen]

73. ?

[Maine Mary]

88. Oh never mind

You're too much of a young joker to understand.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

77. Here ya go

[mainegreen]

82. Damn.

I really like that image!

Thanks
:hi:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

83. The artist is Luis Royo

http://www.luisroyo.com/

[NYC Liberal]

84. Here's mine! I'm on a PowerBook here

[mainegreen]

85. you did the link wrong!

Try again! :P

[NYC Liberal]

87. Should work now!

[mainegreen]

89. holy crap!

That is the veritable definition of 'trippy'!

:D :thumbsup:

[Clintmax]

86. Here's mine...

[mainegreen]

90. cool design.

It makes me want to go out and buy a car for some odd reason.

Train buff?

[Clintmax]

92. Oh yes...always have been!

There is a major train track line behind my parents house where I grew up. When they came out with Train Simulator, I just HAD to have it! :rofl: I've driven all the major engines with the thing! Glad you like my desktop. I've had that one for a long time now. Alas, it's not MY design though.

[Clintmax]

93. I just changed mine earlier...

here's the one I'm using now...

[mainegreen]

94. That ones really nice too

Still, it gives me that car-buying urge.

[Clintmax]

95. LOL!

That's interesting. It makes you want to go buy a car, huh? :shrug:

[JohnnyRingo]

98. I like Blue

Easy to find my icons:

[qnr]

124. Hmmm then why is it gold?

.















Just seeing if you were paying attention. :)

[clbuck]

100. Here's my desktop

Running on Mac OS X 10.4.2 (Tiger). I must be boring; I just use a solid color (what I'd like to call "iPod green") as my desktop "picture".

[mainegreen]

115. Key lime pie!

Mmmmmmm.

I definitly understand the urge for solid colors. I had a solid azure-blue desktop for about six months.

[Gregorian]

101. It's a mess!

[mainegreen]

116. If I look to long at that, the colors start to move!

*eyes watering*

:thumbsup:

[Hand]

102. Here's mine...

It's pretty clean--the strange aspect ratio is because it's a 15.4" laptop and is set to 1280 x 800. I like it, though, because the Japanese print is almost a perfect fit in that format!

BTW, if the icon arrangement seems a bit Macintosh-y, well... that's not an accident.

[mainegreen]

117. Hm. That is an odd ratio.

Must be perfect for watching dvds, though. Smaller black bars.

Those bunnies look a little blood-thirsty though.

*backs away slowly*

[Hand]

122. You are correct, sir!

The screen size is specifically intended for DVD watching, although it's also really good for viewing things like wide spreadsheets or using a higher magnification for word processing files, etc. That's what I use it for, really--the DVDs go in the DVD player and get watched on television as G-d intended.

I think those are samurai bunnies--members of the dreaded Usagi clan! :rofl:

[BreweryYardRat]

103. Because I'm lazy...

...I'll just post my wallpaper.

[hyphenate]

104. I, too, like a very clean desktop

so I put everything into menus. oe Here's the latest incarnation:




That's Boston (my home town) for those who don't recognize it!

[mainegreen]

118. Boston is so photogenic.

I like that shot. Its to bad that'll be covered in snow soon!

:P

[hyphenate]

120. That's okay

Boston looks good even in the dead of winter! :)

[AtomicKitten]

107. never mind

[Chicken Girl]

125. Mandriva Linux using XFCE at 1024x768

Visible apps: gaim, xchat, XMMS, Firefox, Thunderbird (on 2nd desktop)

[alfredo]

126. Home made desktop from digital camera and PS7

Sometimes it's clean sometimes it is a mess. It's a mess right now. I was just finishing up a poster for the GOP. Notice the pager in the bottom left (Desktop Manager). It is like having four monitors. You can tell that I am in the third desktop.